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FACILITY COMPLIANCE INSPECTION REPORT
Division of Waste Management
Solid Waste Section

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UNIT TYPE:
Lined MSWLF X LCID YW Transfer Compost SLAS COUNTY: Guilford
Closed MSWLF HHW White goods Incin T&P FIRM PERMIT NO.: 41-12
CDLF Tire T&P / Collection Tire Monofill Industrial Landfill DEMO SDTF FILE TYPE: COMPLIANCE

Date of Site Inspection: September 10, 2019 Date of Last Inspection: November 13, 2017
FACILITY NAME AND ADDRESS: City of Greensboro MSW Landfill – White Street Landfill 2503 White Street Greensboro, NC 27405 GPS COORDINATES: Lat.: 36.10454 Long.: -79.73018 FACILITY CONTACT NAME AND PHONE NUMBER: David Deel, Solid Waste Disposal Manager
w. 336-412-3959 c. 336-382-8366 [e-mail] FACILITY CONTACT ADDRESS:
City of Greensboro Field Operations Department David Deel, Solid Waste Disposal Manager
2503 White Street Greensboro, NC 27405
PARTICIPANTS: Chuck Kirchner, Environmental Senior Specialist – Solid Waste Section (SWS) David Deel, Solid Waste Disposal Manager – City of Greensboro Field Operations Department Richard P. Lovett, Environmental Compliance Support Manager – City of Greensboro Field Operations Department
Lewis S. Walker, Jr., Landfill Compliance Supervisor - City of Greensboro Field Operations Department Anna Stoddard, Environmental Compliance Specialist - City of Greensboro Field Operations Department Tim Summers, Compost Manager - City of Greensboro Field Operations Department
STATUS OF PERMIT:
Permit to Operate (PTO) issued June 11, 2015 PTO Expiration date April 14, 2020 PURPOSE OF SITE VISIT: Comprehensive Inspection
STATUS OF PAST NOTED VIOLATIONS: None
OBSERVED VIOLATIONS: None

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
On September 10, 2019 Chuck Kirchner with the Solid Waste Section met with David Deel, Richard Lovett, Lewis Walker and several other members of the City of Greensboro Solid Waste Department to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the White Street MSW landfill. Facility Information: 1. The City of Greensboro operates a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill (Phase III, 41-12). The property also contains a large type I solid waste compost (SWC) facility (41-03), a construction and demolition debris (C&D) atop a closed MSW landfill (Phase II, 41-03) adjacent to a closed unlined MSW landfill (Phase I), and a temporary disaster debris staging site (TDDSS, DS41-002). 2. The facility is open Monday through Friday 7:50 am to 4:50 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 1:00 pm. 3. The facility is permitted to receive solid waste generated within the City of Greensboro and Guilford County.
4. The MSW landfill is permitted to operate Phase III, Cells 1, 2 and 3. 5. The facility does not accept scrap tires or white goods. 6. The MSW landfill Cells 1 and 2 contain intermediate soil cover and have a good grass cover.
7. Waste is currently being placed in Cell 3. Records Inspection:
8. The facility site plan, permit and operations plan were discussed. 9. The following employees are certified landfill managers: a. David Deel, Certified Manager of Landfill Operations, certification No. 93440, exp. 03/26/21 b. Lewis S. Walker, Jr., Certified Manager of Landfill Operations, certification No. 54260, exp. 06/26/21 c. John Bald, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2009087, exp. 12/4/2021 d. Eddie Briggs, Jr., Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2018012, exp. 2/22/2021 e. Ronnie Bullins, Jr., Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2018009, exp. 2/23/2021 f. Bernard Garner, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2011072, exp. 2/22/2021 g. Dustin L. Gordon, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2015012, exp. 3/24/2021 h. Timothy M. Graham, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2015013, exp. 3/24/2021 i. Michael Jordan, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2014003, exp. 2/22/2021 j. Tony McKinney, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2018008, exp. 2/23/2021 k. Andrew Subotnik, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2018005, exp. 2/23/2021 l. Timothy Summers, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2018006, exp. 2/23/2021 m. Donald L. Van Eaton, Landfill Operations Specialist, certification # LF-2011081, exp. 2/22/2021 10. The facility maintains daily and monthly records of the amount of solid waste received. Facility records were observed for January 1, 2018 through September 10, 2019. The facility received 12,884.42 tons of waste during that timeframe.
11. The facility annual report (FAR) dated July 31, 2019 was received by the SWS. Facility records for July 2018
through June 2019 is 7,533.14 tons which is approximately up 1000 tons since 2018 FAR and down 25,000 tons since 2017 FAR. 12. The facility maintains a daily leachate inspection sheet that logs external tank condition, leachate tank gauge operation, gallons of leachate pumped, pump-down times, rain gauge totals, etc. Records were not observed this inspection. 13. The leachate collection lines are required to be remote camera inspected every five years. The leachate
collection trunk lines were last camera inspected by Jetclean America on February 3, 2017.
The item(s) listed above were observed by Section staff and require action on behalf of the facility in order to come into or maintain compliance with the Statutes, Rules, and/or other regulatory requirements applicable to this facility. Be advised that pursuant to N.C.G.S. 130A-22, an administrative penalty of up to $15,000 per day may be assessed for each violation of the Solid Waste Laws, Regulations, Conditions of a Permit, or Order under Article 9 of Chapter 130A of the N.C. General Statutes. Further, the facility and/or all responsible parties may also be subject to enforcement actions including penalties, injunction from operation of a solid waste management facility or a solid waste collection service and any such further relief as may be necessary to achieve compliance with the North Carolina Solid Waste Management Act and Rules.
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14. The facility conducts methane monitoring at 13 methane monitoring wells and at the scale house and operations building. Landfill gas monitoring wells 2-5, 7 and 10 were observed this inspection and the wells are maintained in an accessible condition. 15. The facility maintains quarterly methane monitoring records. Methane monitoring is conducted by facility personnel. Records were observed for March 18, 2018 (1st quarter), June 8, 2018 (2nd quarter), September
20, 2018 (3rd quarter), December 17, 2018 (4th quarter), March 25, 2019 (1st quarter) and June 13, 2019 (2nd quarter). No exceedance of the methane lower explosive limit (LEL) is noted. 16. The facility uses two GEM5000 gas analyzer units to conduct quarterly methane monitoring. Gas analyzer
unit calibration records were observed, conducted on August 24, 2017 and October 17, 2016. Mr. Walker stated that this unit has been upgraded to test for hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Ensure results for H2S sampling are recorded on quarterly logs. 17. Groundwater wells, 9-11, 15, 17-25 and 25D were observed during this inspection and were maintained in an accessible condition.
18. The facility maintains semiannual groundwater and surface water monitoring and leachate test records that had been submitted by S&ME, Inc., currently submitted by Golder Associates NC, Inc., and analyzed by Environmental Conservation Laboratories, Inc. (ENCO). Records were observed for groundwater and surface water monitoring and leachate testing conducted on September 14, 2018, February 22, 2019 and August 14, 2019 an exceedance was indicated on all three reports. Facility Inspection: 19. Leachate from Phase III Cells 1, 2, and 3 drain into a leachate manhole before being routed to the leachate storage tanks. During the inspection, the leachate manhole was observed and appears in good condition. 20. The facility has two 350,000-gallon leachate storage tanks with a secondary containment wall. Leachate is
generally maintained in tank A. During the inspection, the leachate level in Tank A was 9.6 feet and Tank B was 4 feet. The leachate tanks are usually pumped down to the sanitary sewer when the leachate level reaches 18-19 feet in Tank A. According to facility staff the tanks will also be pumped down in anticipation
of a large storm event. The leachate tanks are connected by spillover pipe and can be pumped from one to the other. 21. The leachate storage tanks are connected to the City of Greensboro sanitary sewer which flows to the TZ Osborne wastewater treatment plant where the wastewater treatment sludge disposed of at facility originates. 22. The facility [Phase III] has a landfill gas collection system. The landfill gas pipeline to Cone Mills has been capped and is no longer used as boiler fuel. All landfill gas from the Phase III area is flared off. The landfill gas flare was observed in operation. 23. The facility is permitted to use Posi-Shell. Mr. Walker stated that only soil cover is used at this time. 24. The MSW landfill Cells 1 and 2 contain intermediate soil cover. 25. The facility is permitted for leachate recirculation. Mr. Lovett stated that leachate recirculation is not
currently conducted. 26. The facility is permitted to co-dispose of wastewater treatment sludge (WWTS) generated within its approved service area. Only WWTS is disposed of in Cell 3 at this time. Co-disposal of WWTS is not currently conducted. 27. Adequate soil was observed around the working face for use as cover material. 28. Currently the facility receives about four loads a day of wastewater treatment sludge generated from the TZ Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant. 29. The landfill cap contained vegetative cover and appeared maintained. 30. A good grass cover was observed in many areas around Phase III. Erosion and sedimentation controls appeared to be in good order. 31. The facility has installed edge of waste markers. Facility staff said there were plans to replace edge of waste
markers soon. 32. During the inspection odor was not detected. 33. Landfill cap was being mowed during inspection and appears to be well maintained. 34. Windblown material was not observed. 35. The facility has a water truck available for dust control.
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General Comments: 36. The facility is permitted to receive solid waste from Guilford County. Currently the facility is only receiving
sludge from the TZ Osborne wastewater treatment plant. Site is not receiving MSW waste except in emergency situations. 37. On January 5, 2015, the facility was issued a Division of Air Quality (DAQ) Title V permit No. 08830T08, expiration date December 31, 2019. 38. The facility has a stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, General Permit No. NCG120000, Certificate of Coverage No. NCG120013. The NPDES permit expires on September 30, 2022. 39. The facility has proper signage. 40. Access roads are of all-weather construction. 41. The facility is secured by a locked gate. 42. Mr. Lovett stated that in the event of an emergency the facility will call 911 for assistance. 43. The PTO expiration date is April 14, 2020. 44. The PTO renewal application for life of site operations was submitted to the SWS om September 13, 2019. The facility is currently operating under City Council approval for a limited waste stream (type and volume) for the current 5-yr permit expiring in April 2020. As part of the permit renewal process, please be prepared to provide authorization from Council for the continued operation of the landfill for the next 5 years. A permit condition will be added to require future confirmation of council at least once per 5 years. 45. In addition, please be prepared as part of the permit renewal process to provide information related to the phasing or filling of the landfill, stability of the waste mass over time, etc. similar to previous requests at
the time of permitting. Specifically, the 2015 renewal contained information for waste volumes based on known waste streams during the 5yr permit of no more than 100,000 tons of waste. Since the waste volumes since 2017 have been below 10,000 tons annually, the approved drawings may not accurately indicate current and proposed future operations should those volumes remain similar to the last 3 years. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding this inspection report.
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Chuck Kirchner Environmental Senior Specialist Regional Representative

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Copies: Deb Aja, Western District Supervisor - Solid Waste Section Sherri Stanley, Permitting Branch Head – Solid Waste Section Lewis Walker, Landfill Compliance Supervisor – City of Greensboro, [e-mail]
Richard Lovett, Environmental Compliance Support Manager – City of Greensboro, [e-mail] Anna Stoddard, Environmental Compliance Specialist – City of Greensboro, [e-mail]